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Perspectives on power-sector reform, privatization and transactions — drawn from work on the deals and policies themselves.

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Pricing a DISCO for sale: what the model has to get right

As governments move to privatize distribution companies, the sale stands or falls on a credible distribution charge, a defensible asset base, and an honest view of the efficiency gains a private owner can actually capture.

A perspective grounded in building the original IFC privatization model for a power distribution utility — and what has changed in the two decades since.

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Market Design

From single buyer to competitive market

What designing a competitive bilateral contract market (CTBCM) teaches about sequencing reform — and where transitions stall.

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Project Finance

The Lender's Technical Advisor's real job

Where independent technical and commercial review actually de-risks an energy financing — beyond the checklist.

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Cross-Border

Pricing power across a border

Transmission charges, transit fees and trading models — lessons from structuring a regional interconnection.

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Tariffs

Circular debt is a pricing problem

How cost-of-service discipline and tariff design determine whether a power sector stays solvent.

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Oil & Gas

Integrating LNG into a legacy gas grid

What network hydraulics and Wobbe-index limits mean for how much regasified LNG a system can actually absorb.

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New Load

Powering data centers in emerging grids

Procurement strategy, grid connection and captive generation for the fastest-growing class of electricity demand.

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